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On the virtues of keeping OpenStreetMap uncensored

8. June 2010

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Mikel Maron reports on an interesting development in the OpenStreetMap community of volunteer mappers — the Russian OSM community is debating whether Russian military installations should be removed from the OSM dataset, on security grounds. It is illegal to do mapping without a permit while in Russia, so it is understandable if Russian OSM contributors refrain [...]

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8. June 2010

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Archaeology Magazine Blog - Could Google Earth Help Us Stop Looting? Interesting article about using Google Earth's historical imagery as an inexpensive resource for recording and dating archaeological looting events in Peru. Refers to a paper in Antiquity journal. Comments (0)

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8. June 2010

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Archaeology Magazine Blog - Could Google Earth Help Us Stop Looting? Interesting article about using Google Earth's historical imagery as an inexpensive resource for recording and dating archaeological looting events in Peru. Refers to a paper in Antiquity journal. Comments (0)

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